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		kumarvvr 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starlink Direct to Cell I guess the narrow beam, covers quite a bit of area on earth. I guess the "narrow" in the current context is the beam widening to hundreds of miles on earth.

lutorm 3 days ago [–]

IIRC the current Starlink beams are of order 10 miles on the ground. So much narrower than you guess.

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